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Growth of spinors in the generalized Seiberg-Witten equations on $\mathbb R^4$ and $\mathbb R^3$

Differential Geometry 2025-07-31 v3

Abstract

The classical Seiberg-Witten equations in dimensions three and four admit a natural generalization within a unified framework known as the generalized Seiberg-Witten (GSW) equations, which encompasses many important equations in gauge theory. This article proves that the averaged L2L^2-norm of any spinor with non-constant pointwise norm in the GSW equations on R4\mathbb R^4 and R3\mathbb R^3, measured over large-radius spheres, grows faster than a power of the radius, under a suitable curvature decay assumption. Separately, it is shown that if the Yang-Mills-Higgs energy of any solution of these equations is finite, then the pointwise norm of the spinor in it must converge to a non-negative constant at infinity. These two behaviors cannot occur simultaneously unless the spinor has constant pointwise norm. This work may be seen as partial generalization of results obtained by Taubes[Tau17a], and Nagy and Oliveira [NO19] for the Kapustin-Witten equations.

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@article{arxiv.2401.00100,
  title  = {Growth of spinors in the generalized Seiberg-Witten equations on $\mathbb R^4$ and $\mathbb R^3$},
  author = {Gorapada Bera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00100},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Final version to appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics